I can tell you why so many people despise "preppers"

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

They are as low as they come.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

Wow.. whats it like to be so misinformed and so misguided? I guess your low IQ and you retardness make you this way.. Scared is strong with this one

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

"And I understood that in an age where there was so much ego, because of the camera, that it was very important to look for that kind of player, ... I began to look for the kind of player that doesn't need his ego fed by stardom, but will do what he's supposed to do because he knows the game and loves the game, and will do the job the right way even if someone else gets the glory." ~ Bill Belichick

The way so-called preppers talk about guns and shooting people dead once the shit hits the fan - the mental instability is quite, quite clear. And the fact that they think they are "awake" while constantly getting "doom" wrong should tell them how clueless they really are.

The way so-called preppers talk about guns and shooting people dead once the shit hits the fan - the mental instability is quite, quite clear. And the fact that they think they are "awake" while constantly getting "doom" wrong should tell them how clueless they really are.

The way so-called preppers talk about guns and shooting people dead once the shit hits the fan - the mental instability is quite, quite clear. And the fact that they think they are "awake" while constantly getting "doom" wrong should tell them how clueless they really are.

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

They are as low as they come.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

I've not seen so much retardedness on this site in at least. . . a day.

The way so-called preppers talk about guns and shooting people dead once the shit hits the fan - the mental instability is quite, quite clear. And the fact that they think they are "awake" while constantly getting "doom" wrong should tell them how clueless they really are.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

Well most of them around here get their world view shaped from talk radio and News Corp, so yeah, you are asking a bit much of this particular contingent.

The way so-called preppers talk about guns and shooting people dead once the shit hits the fan - the mental instability is quite, quite clear. And the fact that they think they are "awake" while constantly getting "doom" wrong should tell them how clueless they really are.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

Well most of them around here get their world view shaped from talk radio and News Corp, so yeah, you are asking a bit much of this particular contingent.

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So far, no response has shown me wrong. So far, you just have Pavlovian responses from people who have been turned into "prepper" sheep. Who are the "prepper" sheep? Those who are convinced of a quick, impending doom which they must prep for -- prepping with all kinds of goods and services they must buy, and they must buy it all for themselves. It is an ever-man-for-himself atheistic social Darwinian survivalist mentality combined with consumerism, where people are convinced they must do it all alone (because this sells the most crap). But to get them to be like this, they must be turned into radical Ayn Rand types, who are selfish, care not for anyone else, and this ends up with the "come close to me, and I will shoot you" mentality. The mentality of a killer. It is, also, the mentality which, if real doom happened, would lead to the preppers being the first killed off -- in the end, it will only be a group of people working together who can survive. The whole prepper mentality is a self-destruct waiting to happen.

It might be good not to over-generalize. I've been prepping for over a year but I own noweapons aside from a BB gun and I'd never aim it at a person. Most preppers just want to survive to see another day, at least that's how it is around here. We prep for winter storms or the occasional poweroutage.

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

They are as low as they come.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

OP=MENTAL MIDGET

Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. ~

Life is about choices, you get to make them each and every day of your life. ~

Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.~

Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.~

“When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.”

It might be good not to over-generalize. I've been prepping for over a year but I own noweapons aside from a BB gun and I'd never aim it at a person. Most preppers just want to survive to see another day, at least that's how it is around here. We prep for winter storms or the occasional poweroutage.

Quoting: Stand!

I said I can explain the reason why preppers are despised. Obviously, it is due to generalizations. I am not saying I think all follow this model, but it is tendency people see when they see a prepper.

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

They are as low as they come.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

OP=MENTAL MIDGET

Quoting: thetrickybigguy

Wow! You prove my point about so-called "awake" mentality. It's often people who have low IQs who think they are "awake" which judge others and if people disagree, call those who disagree "mental midgets."

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

They are as low as they come.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

OP=MENTAL MIDGET

Quoting: thetrickybigguy

Wow! You prove my point about so-called "awake" mentality. It's often people who have low IQs who think they are "awake" which judge others and if people disagree, call those who disagree "mental midgets."

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

i just call it like i see it.....

Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. ~

Life is about choices, you get to make them each and every day of your life. ~

Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.~

Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.~

“When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.”

It might be good not to over-generalize. I've been prepping for over a year but I own noweapons aside from a BB gun and I'd never aim it at a person. Most preppers just want to survive to see another day, at least that's how it is around here. We prep for winter storms or the occasional poweroutage.

Quoting: Stand!

Additionally, we are aware that many (if not most) of our neighbors are less prepared than we are to some degree. When TSHTF, we will be able to offer them help a LONG time before the government gets off its' collective ass to render any measurable assistance. Look at the survivors of Sandy. Some STILL don't have electricity over a month later, and we saw dumpster diving within a day or two. Would you rather depend on a neighbor or a dumpster? Better yet, why not stock some food and water so that you don't even HAVE to make that decision?

"I have come to the conclusion that all news should be treated like 9/11, assume it is a psyop with actors participating in a staged event complete with props, until proven otherwise, in which case assume whatever is being recorded, reported, televised, is distortions/lying by omission/outright lies, until proven otherwise." - Anonymous, 4-13-12

Stunningly...I actually agree with the OP...at least when it comes to myself anyway.

Ive been prepping since 06'...hard. .50 cal, ar's, food, even a railcar underground. The main reason being "just in case", but the second reason is exactly as the OP mentions...im psychotic, kinda.

Like I could never just randomly go apeshit like the movie Falling Down, BUT...I dream of a shtf scenario every single time I go into public. I dream of the stupid imbiciles who waste their time drinking and drugging starving to death or getting caught in a Fema Camp. I dream of laughing at people as they starve and try to survive some global disaster while they beg for just bread crust. I dream of technology such as iphones and internet go the way of the dinosaurs and people having to actually DO something besides collect welfare and play xbox. I dream of the days when the wild west returns and it becomes survival of the fittest because being a survivalist in a world of "gimme now" people is becoming intolerable.

Idk why I feel this way really. Im not looking for chaos out of spite or to prove Im right and the sheep are wrong. I think order can be established out of chaos and the people in power after such an event will undoubtedly be preppers of similar thinking and that seems better than being screwed daily by those in power now.

So far, no response has shown me wrong. So far, you just have Pavlovian responses from people who have been turned into "prepper" sheep. Who are the "prepper" sheep? Those who are convinced of a quick, impending doom which they must prep for -- prepping with all kinds of goods and services they must buy, and they must buy it all for themselves. It is an ever-man-for-himself atheistic social Darwinian survivalist mentality combined with consumerism, where people are convinced they must do it all alone (because this sells the most crap). But to get them to be like this, they must be turned into radical Ayn Rand types, who are selfish, care not for anyone else, and this ends up with the "come close to me, and I will shoot you" mentality. The mentality of a killer. It is, also, the mentality which, if real doom happened, would lead to the preppers being the first killed off -- in the end, it will only be a group of people working together who can survive. The whole prepper mentality is a self-destruct waiting to happen.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

The classic Pavlovian responses have all been yours as you have instilled your beliefs then responded to them and you re not open to what anyone else has to say.

Consider the basic differences between a prepper and a non-prepper and you will find that being prepared far outweighs a nothing ever happens attitude and most preppers are not isolated individuals but instead are families.

Families that are not completely dysfunctional have a wanting to keep their family warm, fed and safe basic life preservation and the continuation of ones family.

Absolutely no one knows when or what will happen in their lifetimes and a few generations ago, people understood that and their philosophy was save for a rainy day.

Thus take the basic differences preppers/non-preppers during Hurricane Sandy people did not have enough food or water to sustain them nor did they consider an alternative heat or cooking source thus they suffered.

Hurricane Irene hit us hard but being further upstate our mindset is different and once it was, over we were out with a chainsaw sawing downed trees and branches and had everything needed and loaned out an extra propane heater to an elderly couple.

It was family first if you goad a person with what ifs to include what ultimately is threatening the safety and well-being of heir families of course people will become a bit testy.

It might be good not to over-generalize. I've been prepping for over a year but I own noweapons aside from a BB gun and I'd never aim it at a person. Most preppers just want to survive to see another day, at least that's how it is around here. We prep for winter storms or the occasional poweroutage.

Quoting: Stand!

Additionally, we are aware that many (if not most) of our neighbors are less prepared than we are to some degree. When TSHTF, we will be able to offer them help a LONG time before the government gets off its' collective ass to render any measurable assistance. Look at the survivors of Sandy. Some STILL don't have electricity over a month later, and we saw dumpster diving within a day or two. Would you rather depend on a neighbor or a dumpster? Better yet, why not stock some food and water so that you don't even HAVE to make that decision?

Quoting: Eggcellent

I must ask this of you:

Why are you prepping so you can save your neighbors?? While commendable, its pure folly to do so and as a prepper, you know that.

Rule number ONE of prepping is to tell nobody...especially a neighbor lol. So you waste your extra money on freeze dried food and ammo forgoing a new car or roof for your house in the process....while your non prepping neighbor spends his extra cash on a Beemer and his roof is brand new. Then, you decide thats okay and will feed him and his while taking it from your own family??

I am not my brothers keeper. Idc if a 5 year old girl came to my door starving while holding a box full of puppies. During a shtf scenario, I kill her and eat the dogs and sleep just fine afterwards.

Prepping to help neighbors who dont care if you die today? Nah, I'll pass because in reality...your neighbor will covet what youve managed to prep and theyll surely kill you to keep your preps for themselves and if you think otherwise, you are wrong.

So far, no response has shown me wrong. So far, you just have Pavlovian responses from people who have been turned into "prepper" sheep. Who are the "prepper" sheep? Those who are convinced of a quick, impending doom which they must prep for -- prepping with all kinds of goods and services they must buy, and they must buy it all for themselves. It is an ever-man-for-himself atheistic social Darwinian survivalist mentality combined with consumerism, where people are convinced they must do it all alone (because this sells the most crap). But to get them to be like this, they must be turned into radical Ayn Rand types, who are selfish, care not for anyone else, and this ends up with the "come close to me, and I will shoot you" mentality. The mentality of a killer. It is, also, the mentality which, if real doom happened, would lead to the preppers being the first killed off -- in the end, it will only be a group of people working together who can survive. The whole prepper mentality is a self-destruct waiting to happen.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

The classic Pavlovian responses have all been yours as you have instilled your beliefs then responded to them and you re not open to what anyone else has to say.

Consider the basic differences between a prepper and a non-prepper and you will find that being prepared far outweighs a nothing ever happens attitude and most preppers are not isolated individuals but instead are families.

Families that are not completely dysfunctional have a wanting to keep their family warm, fed and safe basic life preservation and the continuation of ones family.

Absolutely no one knows when or what will happen in their lifetimes and a few generations ago, people understood that and their philosophy was save for a rainy day.

Thus take the basic differences preppers/non-preppers during Hurricane Sandy people did not have enough food or water to sustain them nor did they consider an alternative heat or cooking source thus they suffered.

Hurricane Irene hit us hard but being further upstate our mindset is different and once it was, over we were out with a chainsaw sawing downed trees and branches and had everything needed and loaned out an extra propane heater to an elderly couple.

It was family first if you goad a person with what ifs to include what ultimately is threatening the safety and well-being of heir families of course people will become a bit testy.

Quoting: SilverPatriot

hence the label 'mental midget'.....

Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. ~

Life is about choices, you get to make them each and every day of your life. ~

Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.~

Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.~

“When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.”

Because so-called "preppers" despise everyone else and look forward to the day they can get away with a shootout over a can of beans. The attitude of the preppers is what gets them disliked: they are psychos in the making, many who look forward to the time they can get away with being a serial killer. They look down upon others as scum to kill when the time is right, instead of looking at the world with compassion. They care for no one. And they tend to keep repeating the mantra, "It's happening soon," all with a wry smile on their face, showing how much they look forward to the destruction of the world, and if people say "no it isn't," they act so stuck up about being "awake" that no one can get through to them.

They are as low as they come.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29620363

Sooo, knowing that trouble is coming, I take it that you are stocking up on food to give away to your neighbours who could have easily afforded to buy some extra... but didn't.

I'm a prepper who WILL share what I've stockedup simply because it is people looking out for goodol' number one who likely got us into this fix in thefirst place. I don't know about anyone else's situation but my neighbors are good, decent people and we allhelp each other...so, yeah, of course I'm going tohelp them. Besides, you never know if the guy you gave a few cans of stew to might be a paramedic who just happensto have some antibiotic cream to offer the next timeyou've got a cut that gets infected. What goes aroundcomes around.

I'm a prepper who WILL share what I've stockedup simply because it is people looking out for goodol' number one who likely got us into this fix in thefirst place. I don't know about anyone else's situation but my neighbors are good, decent people and we allhelp each other...so, yeah, of course I'm going tohelp them. Besides, you never know if the guy you gave a few cans of stew to might be a paramedic who just happensto have some antibiotic cream to offer the next timeyou've got a cut that gets infected. What goes aroundcomes around.

Quoting: Stand!

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"And I understood that in an age where there was so much ego, because of the camera, that it was very important to look for that kind of player, ... I began to look for the kind of player that doesn't need his ego fed by stardom, but will do what he's supposed to do because he knows the game and loves the game, and will do the job the right way even if someone else gets the glory." ~ Bill Belichick